goodbye my sweetheart

Us walked in front and made a gesture of asking her. Katherine's knees were weak. No matter how stubborn she was, she couldn't help begging for mercy from Klaus, but her rationality told her: For a person like Klaus, begging for mercy is useless of.

"Sit." Klaus pointed to the stone block deep in the ancient tomb.

Katherine sat down obediently.

Klaus took out a dagger from his pocket and handed it to Katherine, "Doesn't it look familiar? You know what to do, old rules."

Katherine took it, thrust the dagger hard into her thigh, pulled it out, raised it, and stabbed the other thigh.

Katherine couldn't stop without Klaus' orders.

In the gloomy ancient tomb.

Katherine blew out the candle, feeling more sad than heartbroken.

She was alone, sitting in the dark, stabbing herself with the cold blade.

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Ten days later, Salvatore's home.

"It didn't work." Damon stopped Stefan who was about to go out with a gloomy face. "Klaus has a wizard's barrier, and I can't get in. I tried many times."

"...I...I just want to go out and have a cup of coffee." Stefan said nonchalantly, but his heart seemed to be filled with sand, and he felt heavy boredom and pain.

Damon and Stefan glanced at each other, then each looked out the window, both thinking: Katherine, are you still alive?Where are you now?

Stefan pretended to be calm, he closed the door without stopping, and went to Klaus' mansion, hoping to find something.

As Damon said, the wizard's barrier kept him away.

No matter how many times he tried, he couldn't break in. In the end, he fell to the ground exhausted.

There was silver light flashing on the ground, like wet tears, Stefan looked over, his heart sank, it was Katherine's sunlight bracelet.He picked up the bracelet and returned quickly.

"Damon," Stefan asked eagerly, showing off the bracelet, "Look, is this her bracelet?"

"Easy! My shoulders are about to be crushed by you." Damon was a little startled, and Stefan was eagerly expecting his negative reply. "How can I see if you don't give me?"

"No, that's how you look at it!" He didn't want Damon touching any of Katherine's stuff again.

Damon took a closer look.

He also hoped not.

"It's her—" Damon sighed, and she never took the bracelet off when he and she were in bed.

Wearing a solar bracelet, she can walk around in the sun like a normal person.

Sunlight ornaments are treasures that vampires dream of. Once worn, they will not be taken off unless——the catastrophe is coming.

She is probably gone.

Stefan gripped the bracelet tightly until his knuckles turned white, and collapsed silently with no expression on his face.

"Listen, Stefan, it doesn't mean anything - maybe she's okay."

"I hate you!" Stefan suddenly burst into a rage, and punched Damon fiercely. He didn't stop after punching Damon. You! Damon, I will never forgive you! Ever!"

"To be fair, didn't you choose Elena to survive yourself?" Damon hugged Stefan who was on the verge of losing control, "Listen to me, Stefan, we have to forgive ourselves, Elena is human, and it would be difficult if she fell into Klaus' hands." If we escape to death, we can only choose her!"

"I hate you! I hate you!" Stefan's nails dug deep into Damon's neck, blood gushing out, "We killed her."

Damon hugged Stefan who was crying, now is not the time to act emotionally, he patted Stefan on the back, "Don't be so quick to judge, we have to live well, and we can hope to save her if we live."

Stefan fell silent and didn't speak for a long time.

Stefan was crying, he guessed.

Because his shoulders were wet and warm, Stefan's tears.

Damon's eyes were also red, and he was not feeling well, everything about him was laid by Katherine.

She taught him how to flirt with women.

She taught him how to hunt "food".

She taught him how to dispose of dead bodies.

She taught him how to cover his tracks and blood.

She taught him to love.

She made him learn to hate.

She gave him hope.

It also gave him despair.

He is a good student.

He hit her back beautifully, and he gave her something more desperate than despair: betrayal.

The betrayal she got was double.

From Stefan and himself.

Without hesitation, he betrayed his first love, mentor... and... benefactor.

Though never mentioned, what Damon couldn't deny was that Katherine had saved his life.

When he was bitten by a werewolf and was dying, she appeared at his bedside with the antidote.

Damon covered his face, as if his heart was being grabbed by something, it was getting tighter and tighter, and he was about to suffocate.

■09■

in the tomb.

Katherine, who was so hungry that she was a mummy, was still carrying out Klaus' orders. As long as she was alive, she would continue to stab her thigh with a dagger.

Blood dripped from the wound on her leg and fell to the ground.

The sound of blood dripping to the ground was her only company.

She no longer feels pain.

And not just because Klaus ordered her not to go out.

She really doesn't want to go out.

There is nothing waiting for her outside.

There is no hatred in her heart, no Klaus, no revenge, no plan A, plan B, plan C, plan D, plan E.

She just felt bored, she didn't want to face her miserable life again.

She loves her parents and family, it's a pity they died because of her.

She loves her daughters, but it's a pity they haven't even met each other.

She loved Klaus, but unfortunately Klaus never loved her, she was just an animal on the altar to him, ready to be slaughtered at any time.

She loves Stefan and Damon, they are the sweetest part of her life.

They're like melted marshmallows, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, just sadly sweet.

No.

They are more like opium coated with a layer of icing sugar, which makes the sweetness even sweeter and the addiction more addictive. She just took a sip, and she was addicted to it, unable to extricate herself.

It's a pity that she has been paying for this sweetness until she pays the bill at the cost of her life.

These two men she loved so much, handed him over to her enemies.

Love is her lifelong belief.

Love is her unwavering faith that has never been doubted for 500 years.

However, in the truth, wrong love is the portrayal of her life.

... Now, her faith is like a collapsed sand sculpture, fragmented.

To live without faith would be so superfluous.

As she said to Elijah 500 years ago: "If you don't believe in love, why are you alive?"

Although her escape life made her life difficult, she has always been a rich man in spirit.

No matter how downcast she is, her heart is always full and warm, because she firmly believes that in this world, there is a man named Stefan who loves her deeply and is waiting to reunite with her.She and Stefan were meant to be together.

It is because of this belief that she can grit her teeth and slowly endure no matter how dark and dreary the day is.

But now...she really has nothing.

Her only faith also dissipated with the wind.

She has no family, they are all dead.

All her friends betrayed her, her wizard friend betrayed her, her friend Isobel betrayed her;

Her lovers also betrayed her, Stefan and Damon...

She was too lazy to use her brain to find a way to escape, even if she continued to live, she didn't know what to rely on to support until the second sunrise.

She no longer wanted to escape death.

For the first time, she chose to bravely open her arms to meet death.

For the first time in 500 years, she longed so much for death, for rest, for ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

death = pain relief

She couldn't help it.

Because she found out she was a silly joke.

She has spent her entire life avoiding death.

In order to survive, she used all means and all conscience, but now, the deepest feeling of being alive is pain.

She has been on the run for 500 years, she has had enough.

But there was not even a single piece of wood residue in this damn ancient tomb, so she couldn't even die if she wanted to.

That dagger could only make her hurt, but it couldn't kill her.

She could only pray, pray that Klaus would not forget her.

She could only pray, pray that Klaus would give her a good time.

All she wanted was to die, and all her existence turned into torment, both physically and mentally.

The sweetest encounter in her long escape was the eleven months she spent with the Salvatore brothers.

She wants love so badly.

She is so nostalgic for that sweetness and warmth, she racks her brains to continue their love, and she wants to continue their relationship at all costs.

She tried to deceive her by feigning death